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しんかんせん
うんちん
トムくんは、オーストラリアドルをもって日本に来ました。新幹線の運賃 (fare)は
オーストラリアドルでいくらぐらいか、知りたいと思っています。
Tom brought Australian dollars to Japan. He would like to find out approximately how
much the shinkansen fares are in Australian dollars.
If A$1.00 = 70 yen, how much are the following fares in Australian dollars? Tom has
A$ 600. How much is A$ 600 in Japanese yen?
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～
たら
= If
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If Tom goes from Tokyo to Kyoto by shinkansen, how much yen does he have left?
(He is buying a one-way ticket.)
Then, Tom had a tofu meal in Kyoto. It cost 3500 yen. How much money does he
have left now?
After that, Tom bought souvenirs for twenty friends. He bought 20 packets of green
tea. They were 650 yen each. Tom is going to stay a night in Kyoto. Read the
following list of places to stay and work out at where he can afford to stay?
こたえ
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<Activity4>
しんかんせん
とお
し
じんこう
トムくんは、新幹線で通る、大きい市の人口をしらべました。
Tom researched the populations of the big cities the shinkansen passes through.
Answer the following questions looking at the graph and table on the previous
page.
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Education and Training, 2007
Yokohama is the city with the second largest population in Japan.
The population of Sydney is approximately 4,000,000.
Which has the largest population, Yokohama or Sydney?
Hakata station is in the city of Fukuoka. Which city has approximately double the
population of Fukuoka?
The population of Japan is approximately 120,000,000 people.
The number of people living in the 23 special districts of Tokyo represents
what percentage of Japan’s total population?
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